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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450548203321

Titolo

Communitarian politics in Asia / / edited by Chua Beng Huat

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

0-203-69259-4

1-134-31280-6

1-280-07953-3

0-203-41730-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (206 p.)

Collana

Politics in Asia series

Altri autori (Persone)

ChuaBeng Huat

Disciplina

306.2/0959

Soggetti

Communitarianism - Southeast Asia

Communitarianism - East Asia

Electronic books.

Southeast Asia Politics and government

East Asia Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Communitarian politics in Asia / Chua Beng Huat -- Communitarian philosophy and East Asian politics / Daniel A. Bell -- Predicament of communality : lessons from Japan / Tatsuo Inoue -- The anti-communitarian family? : everyday conditions of authoritarian politics in South Korea / Chang Kyung Sup -- Communitarianism without competitive politics in Singapore / Chua Beng Huat -- The ethics of care and political practices in Hong kong / Ho Mun Chan -- Shariah formalism or democratic communitarianism? : the Islamic resurgence and political theory -- The failure of state ideology in Indonesia : the rise and demise of Pancasila / Vedi R. Hadiz -- "Community in the East" : towards a new human rights paradigm / Anthony Woodiwiss.

Sommario/riassunto

With the collapse of European socialism in the late 1980s, ascendancy of the liberal capitalist democracy and individual self-interest became prevalent in the West. In contrast, many polities in Asia, both by tradition and choice, have explicitly adopted communitarianism as a national ideology, for example Confucianism in Korea, Hong Kong and



Japan, Islam in Malaysia and the Panca Sila in Indonesia. Here, communitarianism arguably informs public policies and political practices and the concept of the 'social' in terms of responsibilities and collective welfare is preserved.<EM